Margaux Kier

She spent her childhood in Bydgoszcz. Since the age of twelve, she has lived in Germany. Actress, singer and doctor (surgeon, urologist). Founder of the band Margaux&die BANDiten (2000), with which she has recorded three albums. The band's repertoire combines: worldmusic, chanson and jazz with theatre and literature. She is the author of the programmes, music and texts performed by Margaux & die BANDiten. As an actress she performed on stages in Cologne and Wuppertal as well as in Dortmund. She performed with the German-Polish experimental theatre Actors' Studio Pulheim on numerous stages in Europe, Asia and Africa. She collaborated with many artists and companies in Poland including: Gardzienice Centre for Theatre Practices, Jerzy Stuhr, Jan Peszek and Zofia Kalińska. Director of theatre and music performances. She led workshops for young people in many European countries. She creates trilingual multi-media performances. Co-founder of Mobile Literatur Guerilla in Cologne and Theater Anderwelten Wuppertal-Köln. She is involved in charity work for: German-Polish friendship, supporting global musicians, protecting children's rights and helping political prisoners in Belarus. She has been working with the Węgajty Theatre for years. Participant of workshops and expeditions of the Other Theatre School, guest of the Theatre Village festival and, as she says: "an admirer of the founders of the theatre – Mute and Wacek, their creative path, their views on life, the world and society, their creation of space and vision for young people from all over the world, an island of goodness, truth and beauty".

fot. Hanna Witte